Etruscian Chain Bracelet
- Etruscian style woven chain bracelet
- Historically this type of chain consists of hundreds of individually soldered links
- Here I have made the chain from a single strand of silver wire. This 'corking' is related to a technique I learned as a child, using yarn, a spool with 4 nails, and a crochet hook.
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Catch detail
- Screw catch parts fabricated using a manual lathe
- Outer bead CNC milled in wax, bored on lathe, and investment cast
- Fine detailing around beads was hand engraved
- All parts then assembled to chain
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Model
- Perspective Rhino render
- blue cylinder is only a modeling aid
- although the model is pierced the actual milled wax wasn't; tooling and machine geometry are useful design tools.
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